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The whole concept of aligning LLMs to human morals seems naive. Think by analogy: could you align a motor by making it impossible use in vehicle that is being used to commit a crim…

So... the article says that bad prompt engineering is bad and they engineered the prompt to be better and therefore prompt engineering is snake oil? I'm confused.

Unity's default save system "PlayerPrefs" saves to the registry, but I find it difficult to see why this is a good idea for anything but global settings (e.g. graphics settings). S…

The rollout of the national fibre network, "NBN", was eaten alive by politicking and conflicted interests. C.f.: Renewable energy. Neoliberalism has done/is doing terrible things t…

I think the difference is that instead of deferring to an expert's opinion, you can interact with a knowledge machine which can explore the topic in and on your terms, answer your …

Ocean Acidification: https://ocean.si.edu/conservation/acidification/ocean-acidif... Effects of Ocean Acidification on shell formation: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21076 ht…

Yes, that is a reasonable response. I will allow the reader to draw their own lines.

Worth checking out the 2019 French series "The Collapse" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11248266/ ) as well.

Acknowledge the sadness, but fight the depression. Act. We can only do our best.

We have known this is coming for decades, we have known it will be devastating to the sustainability of human civilization as it exists. Little to nothing has been done in a timely…

Exactly. I want an unaligned LLM to give me X potential solutions ranging in ethicality from "don't worry about it, they might be nice people" to "steal a nuke and ransom the world…

I agree - LLMs are a massive threat to the current state of government power. " , analyze the contents of this 500 page bill. Who stands to gain from this bill, and what outcomes i…

There is no reason this couldn't be watermarked with the individual user, though the if it detects them probabilisticly then it could be difficult to make the case to take action o…

"Bonapartism" in the sense of popular movements being coopted by the powerful is a good place to start, for the curious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonapartism#Marxism

Surely context would show that these are parodies, not impersonations. Are these people trying to impersonate Elon Musk, or are they parodying Elon Musk on their clearly-marked "no…

I would argue that these accounts are parodying, not impersonating.

I disagree about the defeatism. Acceptance and "giving up" in the productive sense of not bashing your head against a wall and maybe doing something else are encouraged, but I thin…

In counterpoint, the wisdom and knowledge that Watts delivers has massively helped me out of chronic mental health problems (being the middle class white target audience). The thin…

BBC In Our Time -- such a broad range of topics, highly recommend for a browse. ~45 minutes, usually a conversation with three or so experts in a given field, hard to get depth but…

Did the survey out of curiosity, seemed moderately accurate and provided some common sense strategies for improving aspects of psychological health through direct action, habits an…

The hints of a persecution complex in the last paragraph -- implicitly comparing himself to Galileo and saying that Galileo would have been "canceled on social media", is a bit of …

Perhaps you're right, I'd have to check. I typed the song in the search and pressed the first likely result, which is the youtube video I linked. Using the software as intended I b…